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Memoirs National Museum of Victoria MEMOIRS NATIONAL MUSEUM OF VICTORIA MELBOURNE (World List c~bhrev.Mern. nnt. Nlus. Vict.) No. 27 Z.r:rucd 2nd N01~ernbe.r;1966 J. R4cN A Tdl, Y DIRECTOR Publish~ztbjl 01dC7-uj the Tf-1~jtec.s MEiVI. NAT MUS. TilCT. 27--1966 PORT PHlLLIP SURVEY 1 957-1 963, By J. HOPE MACPHERSON, Curator of Molluscs-National Museunz of Victoria. SUMMARY. The Mollusca, other than Opisthobranchs, collected during the survey are listed with records of distribution within Port Phillip and where clarification is considerecl necessary, descriptions are enlarged upon and nomenclature discussed. A list of species previously recorded from Port Phillip but not taken on the present survey is appended. INTRODUCTION The shelled Mollusca have a greater attraction for the amateur zoologist than any other group of marine organisms and therefore are as a rule the best known member of any invertebrate fa-una. This is very much the case in Victoria where settlement is comparatively recent and the number of professional zoologists has been limited. Thus the components of the molluscan fauna are known but the ecology, anatomy and even the distribution of many species is still in need of study. The intention of the survey is to give information on the distribution and ecology of the species collected. The main body of the paper records the stations (see Charts I and I1 and Table A at back of volume) at which each species was taken and gives brief notes on the ecology and if necessary the nomenclature, and a description of the less well known species. None are new. Species previously recorded from Port Phillip but not taken on the survey are listed with their place of collection. Many of these are minute and most records are from south of the Nepean Bay bar so were probably casual visitors from Bass Strait. A few early records from the northern end of Port Phillip suggest that pollution by a large bayside population may have proved too much for some species. Many such still occur in the comparatively unaffected waters of Western Port. Most of the collecting of the survey was done in waters of greater depth than one fathom but it is intended to extend its scope as time permits to cover the littoral. This has already been commenced and collections have been made at a number of intertidal stations. Thus it was thought desirable to include the known littoral species in this account and so give as complete a review as possible of the molluscan fauna of Port Phillip. Class AMPHINEURA. Order Lepidopleurida. Family LEPIDOPLEURIDAE Terinochiton liratus (A. Adarns and Angas). Lepidopleurus lil-atns A. Adams and Angas, 1864. Proc. Zool. Soc., p. 192. Terenochiton liratus Iredale and Hull, 1925. Aust. Zool., 111. (8), p. 342, pl. 39, f. 4.; 1927. Monograph p. 44, pl. 6, f. 4. MATERIAL: Port Phillip Survey: Area 58 (293). Nat. Mus. Col1:-Port Phillip Heads (Area 58). 5050.'64 --14 MEM NAT. MUS. VICT 27-1966 Order Chitonida. Family LEPIDOCHITONIDAE. Subterenochiton gabrieli (Hull) Ischnochiton gabrieli Hull, 1912. Proc. roy. Soc. Vic., 25, p. 120, pl. 8, f. la--f. MATERIAL: Port Phillip Survey: Areas 55 (1471, 13 (92). Family MOPALIIDAE. Poneroplax albida (Blainville) . Chiton albida Blainville, 1825. Dict. Sci. Nat. (Levrault) 36, p. 547. Poneroplax albida Iredale and Hull, 1926. Aust. Zool., IV. (3) p. 165, 2 text. fig., pl. 18, f. 1, 9, 10. MATERIAL: Port Phillip Survey: Areas 55 (intertidal) REMARKS: This is a common species of the lower littoral on rock platforms where it occurs on exposed surfaces in the "bare" zone of Bennett and Pope. Although an inhabitant of exposed ocean platforms it penetrates as far north in Port Phillip as Ricketts Point (Area 23). Poneroplax costata (Blainville) . Chiton costatus Blainville, 1825. Dict. Sci. Nat. (Levrault) 36, p. 548. Por~eroplaxcostata Iredale and Hull, 1926. Aust. Zool. IV., (3) p. 165 text figs., pl. 18, f. 1, 9 and 10. MATERIAL: Port Phillip Survey: Areas 55 (39); S. side Schnapper Point. REMARKS: Of similar habitat to the previous species and occurring with it in Port Phillip. Kopionella matthewsi (Iredale) . Plaxiphora matthewsi Iredale, 1910. Proc. Mal. Soc., 9, p. 99. Iredale and May, 1916. ibid. XII., p. 101, pl. 5, f. 4, 4aii, 4aiii. MATERIAL: Port Phillip Survey: Areas 42 (38); Nat. Mus. Coll.: Mornington (Area 55), Family CKYPTOPLACIDAE. Craspedoplax variabilis (H. Adams and Angas). I3anleya variabilis H. Adams and Angas, 1864, p. 194, pl. 6, f. 3. MATERIAL: Port Phillip Survey: Areas 48 (34); Nat. Mus. Coll.: Mornington (-4rea 55), Barwon Heads (Area 56). Acanthochiton bednalli (Pilsbry) . Acanthoclzites bednalli Pilsbry, 1894. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., p. 81, pi. 2, f. 7-11. MATERIAL: Port Phillip Survey: Area 42 (38); Nat. Mus. Coll.: Port Philliri Heads (Area 58). Acanthochitoil granostriatus (Pilsbry) . Acanlhochites granostriatus Pilsbry, 1894. Nautilus, 8, p. 119; Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., p. 81, pl. 2, f. 1-6; pl. 4, f. 37. MATERIAL: Port Phillip Survey: Areas 55 (39); Gatliff Coll.: Black Rock (Area 13), Sandringham (Area 13). Meturoplax retrvjecta (Pilsbry) . Acanthochites retrojecta Piisbry, 1894. Nautilus 7, p. 107. ,Mct~iroplaxretrojectus Iredale and Hull, 1925. Aust. Zool., IV. (2) p. 89, pl. 10, f. 26-30. MATERIAL: Port Phillip Survey: Areas 13 (93, 94); 14 (95) ; 36 (77); 28 (285); 30 (280). REMARKS: This is a cryptic reef dwelling species which occurs in suitable sheltered positions such as amongst Galeolaria or algae from the lower littoral to several fathoms. Cryptoplax iredalei Ashby. Cryptoplax iredalei Ashby, 1925. Trans. roy. Soc. S. Aust., 47, p. 238, pl. 19, f. 4. MATERIAL: Port Phillip Survey: Areas 59 (36); 66 (292); 58 (293). Cryptoplax striata (Lamarck) . Chitonellus striatus Lamarck, 1819. Anim. S. Vert. G, p. 317. Cryptoplax striata Macpherson and Gabriel, 1962. Marine Molluscs of Victoria, p. 13, f. 21. MATERIAL: Port Phillip Survey: Area 61 (239). Family PSCHNOCHITONIDAE. Ischnochiton elongatus (Blainville) . Chiton elongatus Blainville, 1825. Dict. Sci. Nat. (Levrault), 36, p. 542. Ischnochiton elongatus Macpherson and Gabriel, 1962. Marine Molluscs of Victoria, p. 14, f. 22. MATERIAL: Port Phillip Survey: Area 55 (39) ; (Sunnyside beach intertidal) ; 13 (93, 94) ; 14 (95) ; 5 (53-4) ; 27 (41) ; 17 (170) ; 6 (137) ; 55 S. side of Schnapper Point; 30 (280); 63 (163). Ischnochitan falcatus Hull. Ischnochiton falcatus Hull, 1912. Prac. roy. Soc. Vict. 25, p. 121, pl. V111 MATERIAL: Port Phillip Survey: Areas 50 (230). Ischr-~ochitonlineolata. Chiton lineolatus Blainville, 1825. Dict. Sci. Nat. (Levrault), 36, p. 541. lschnochiton lineolatus Macpherson and Gabriel, 1962. Marine Molluscs of Victoria p. 14, f. 23. MATERIAL: Port Phillip Survey: Area 42 (38). lschnochiton var-iegata (H. Adams and Angas). Lepidopleurus variegalus H. Adams and Angas, 1864. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1864, p. 192. Ischnochilon atkinsoni Iredale and May, 1916. Proc. Mal. Soc. Lond., XII., p. 110, PI. IV., f. 3. !schnochiton atkinsoni lincolnensis Asbby, 1920. Trans. roy. Soc. S. Aust., 44, p. 275, pl. XII., f. 5a, 5b. Ischrzochiton variegatus Iredale and Wrrll, 1927. 4 Monograplz of Aust. Loricatcs p. 13, pl. 1, f. 2. Isclznochiton atkinsoni, ibid. p. 20, pl. IT., f. 33a, 33b. MATERIAL: Port Phillip Survey: Areas 42 (38); 55 (intertidal S. side of Schnapper Point), 37 (40). REMARKS: This is a variable species and there has been considerable confusion amongst authors in regard to its determination. Aciarns and Angas originally applied the name vuriabilis to specimens from 204 MEM NAT. MUS. VICT. 27-1966 Yorke Peninsula, S. Australia and Iredale and May named the Tasmanian representative atkinsoni. Ashby considered some S. Australian and Victorian specimens to be distinct from variegatus and closer to the Tasmanian atkinsoni of which he made them a subspecies calling it lincolnensis. Iredale and Hull disagreed with this and put lincolnensis into the synonorny of variegata. They still retained athinsoni and distinguished between it and variegata by the size of girdle scales and number of slits, in variegata and in atkinsoni. As the Port Phillip material proved difficult to place satisfactorily the whole group came under review. The girdle scales were measured with a micrometer eye piece and in all three so called species were approximately the same size. Three specimens from each of the type localities were examined to determine the formation for the slits and it was found that the number in the anterior valve varied between 9-12, and in the posterior between 9-13. Usually the number of slits in the anterior and posterior valves is the same but not always. Heterozona cariosa (Dall) Iieterozona cariosa Dall, 1892. In Pilsbry Man. Conch., XIV., p. 66, pl. 24, f. 23. MATERIAL: Port Phillip Survey: Areas 55 (Sunnyside beach intertidal) ; 13 (93, 94); 14 (95); 27 (41); 17 (170); 42 (38, 281); 28 (285); 16 (143). Nat. Mus. Coll.: Port Phillip Heads (Area 58). Heterozona fruticosa (Gould) . Iscl~nochitonfruticosa Gould, 1846. Proc. Boston Nat. Hist. Soc., 11, p. 142; Dall, 1892 in Pilsbry Man. Conch., XIV., p. 91, pl. 23, f. 78-80. MATERIAL: Port Phillip Survey: Area 5 (53-4). lschnoradsia evunida (Sowerby). Chiton evanidus Sowerby, 1840. Mag. Nat. Hist., (Charlesworth), TV,, p. 291; Conch. Illust. (Ch~ton) 1840 f. 139. MATERIAL: Port Phillip Survey: Areas 55 (S. side Schnapper Point). REMARKS: This is a sublittoral species living under stones and so was not collected on the present phase of the survey, though it is known to be common in Port Phillip. Aulocochiton cirnolia (Reeve). Chiton cimolia Reeve, 1847. Conch. Icon 4, pl. 21, f. 141. MATERIAL: Port Phillip Survey: Area 36 (76) Nat. Mus. Coll.: Williamstown (Area 6). Khyssoplax tricostalis (Pilsbry) . Chiton tricostales Pilsbry, 1894. Nautilus VIII., p. 54. Rhyssoplax tricostalis Macpherson and Gabriel, 1962. Marine Molluscs of Victoria p.
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